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1 AsStestGSirisiitff&feft it!';' il: ip'W'SM* th I 'Pia?- By Rebecca Kolberg ;V --' Dr. RT- Mossman of the yniversi- United Press lnternational,'"'r' **-. '" - ` -ty:tof VermontMedi(fal'?Schobl -and WASHINGTON -- Asbestos found his TMUeague^sald-'they based their in schools and other pUbifc btiiidings aeSfhent;b^a/revie\y:'of thedatest - poses: little risk for lung dtseasev'hnd study /"asbestos panic" may be leadfng^to -;U4?5iot=rthe costly; and unnecessary 'removal asbestos industry'-they^said;'' b/ . efforts, scientists said Thursday: mineral' used ' In a study published in the journal 'fbr'insulatiOTvah^-fifepro6fih&j-be-';:- Science, a; team iof medical-experts-. ..^rnesihaz^^iwheft.it.-crumbles concluded;. "Chiysotile asbekbs^the" to ^t>estoS?can^rSause-Tung/scaftcer ^ X " * "/"* W4U4M^O| M IIV^ 'Cl health risk1 iri ffi^-obn^tfcfcupatidnal environment.".. `if --' tm ^n^htai[|^pt.e.ction^ . "Clearly, the asbestospanicin.the United Statesr/must 'be-'curtailed;' especially because unwarranted ..f. oii4ii~&4>j-roir-$1~4<*-xv?5i?>>'.-!4&-^i& .-.1."*' - pi'.f-f '* pcwrly:;pntoU^ i >^.;/E^Afcj^u|t3;chipols. .to be risks'to p``.tvtMiA/USiri^ynwmv *. young 'rembral Jwqrkers who may': develop asbbstos-related cabeers.;ip-ij later decades;'* they wrote. 1 .gM''' 8? A^^rTHE;TlMES UNION.*4' :' & ,`v : Albany, N.Y.. Friday, ]an. 19, 1990 panic if'asbestos is . found . ; ; but on that does"not threatenbealthf .the other hand to write it off as an ;- . Robert Percival,, a professor of /.Insignificant-risk is misleading, be- environmental law at the University Continuedfrpm:A-14,~::^ .-./V will be phased in oyer seven years! ` cause the.risks are there." /?. / ..'. of Maryland, said the Science article f: ' ElkiiS-saidSme 'research.; has'; contains "the same /bid/arguments Mossman's- team argues EPA;ac- . hinted iat differences. in cancer-/; that have been! made by/a lot of. the a^e^industii^.f(^jc^;Qr^" .. ./'.'^hen'.vthfe^^^.EPAT^ifiiw.j/lciip^'lts ^asbestos policy,: government experts poocludedisrientific evidebce Was not strong phough to backbp/claims a_ _ a f5n~*' nAA.and his colleaeoes coni that'doe form.of a^Stos;is safer amphlbole, which flakes off/in - rod- '' asbestos-should not be ripped out or; , . than another, he'said: like fibers, rather than a thralled covered up simply because lt is- :-Pexiyal also; saitf/^r /tests for 'arfs^'-are.raieBalSe^,*^^'r\" ' ^hejpipbleih with ai^inotiitining is^Jhat/ybu'.'can; come^fep, with/a readingVthat nwkes".yba.':.tHink .the ari' iS'^fe, and two mirihtes later, ih/ tber^ame place, yott/can/get/a aSbesfi'yoti^l|nd' ln^Anierto'is-removing:, asbestos' : . wildly/lifferent reading," be said: benign (harmless) form.'*;0iS'mnS^the^tiinated'^^T30,obo/piibilc; - rPerdval-.* concedi s? there '-have ^ITfie study noted the'cha^a^difrand/coramercial. buildings; contain-, - been' instances .in .which /.risk ..of eiposed to. asbestos for/five/yea^^'ing^ to/$l$0 o: asbestbs-.exposure- tosrbeenVover- . mrAnhiallv Hip rtf ^'hllliopJtiio'SCiGfltistS S&kLr- btowi-^.: .. ag hit by a car before age It,, - > ratbentliah.visual checks would take JCharies. EMns, director oT/the '! tob.'jnuchiuwork.-. But'.Gee Sald he EPA's OfGce/of Tdiic Substances,; thlnia' lt is 'more, foolish to spend said: "We agree people should not' time and money containing asbestos But he added asbestos.remains a serious threat, because Tno one has found a safe exposurelevel, and "all asbesttet becomes a.beaith. haiaxd. at some point because it all eventually deteriorates." _ . ... meeting between the .mayor and an oq bis schedule at the hotel Thursday HWBUI0005091